Like us, it’s all chemistry for digestion! How is it that these detritivores – literally dirt eaters – turn what humans find inedible into beloved compost? After the biology and physics of swallowing ...

Normally, it takes the waxing and waning of the moon to coax certain worms from hiding on the seafloor to mate. Out in the open, sex-inducing chemicals kick off a swirling dance that culminates in a ...

Eyeless roundworms may have hacked other cellular warning systems to give themselves a form of color vision. By Veronique Greenwood In the warm, fetid environs of a compost heap, tiny roundworms feast ...

Worms optimize their foraging behavior by learning to associate pheromones with food availability and changing their movements accordingly, new research finds. Researchers have shown how worms learn ...

In a new study published in Science Advances Sept. 10, a team of UC Davis researchers tracked the movement of fluorescent ...